Redirect returns "Object moved to"

Question

I have a problem. When I try to redirect user to non-http URL from MVC action, it returns:

Object moved to here.

Full response (from Fiddler):

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Location: myGame-app://test.somespecificdata
Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0
X-AspNetMvc-Version: 4.0
X-AspNet-Version: 4.0.30319
X-SourceFiles: =?UTF-8?B?QzpcVXNlcnNcUGlvdHJcRGVza3RvcFxUYWtlc0NhcmVcVGFrZXNDYXJlXERvY3RvcnNcRWRvY3RvclxDb25zdWx0YXRpb25cMTkx?=
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Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 18:19:35 GMT
Content-Length: 457

<html><head><title>Object moved</title></head><body>
<h2>Object moved to <a href="myGame-app%3a%2f%2ftestprotocol.somespecificdata">here</a>.</h2>

<!-- Visual Studio Browser Link -->
<script type="application/json" id="__browserLink_initializationData">
    {"appName":"Firefox"}
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localhost:53098/4c9c75263d91451fa797f9041e4bd0f3/browserLink" async="async"></script>
<!-- End Browser Link -->

</body></html>

My action (with pseudo code):

[HttpGet]
public ActionResult Consultation(int id)
{
      //.. specific business logic
      if(IsMobile()){
          return RedirectPermanent("myGame-app://test.somespecificdata"); 
      }
      else{
          return View("AboutGame", SomeSpecificModel);
      }
}

The same situation is with return Redirect() instead of return RedirectPermanent().

My main goal is to redirect a user who uses the mobile browser to URL with special protocol (not http). This special protocol (myGame-app://) runs my mobile app according to this Stack discussion. How can I achieve this, without information Object moved to here?

Regards

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 22 '15 at 11:16

The Redirect/RedirectPermanent methods add a body to the response containing the "moved here"-HTML. If you want an "empty" response just set the response yourself:

HttpContext.Current.Response.Redirect("url", false);
HttpContext.Current.Response.StatusCode = 301;
HttpContext.Current.ApplicationInstance.CompleteRequest();

Be aware that the rest of your logic after this will be executed, so make sure nothing else (filters etc) that might redirect the response again happens after setting this.

Redirect returns "Object moved to"

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